Account Safety©

[Chocobos]

Well i thought i would make a guide to help people understand scammers slightly better, i know this r teh suck considering most Habbox members arent new.

Click the spoiler tag(s) to begin!


Section A - Habbo Scams


1 - Casino Scamming

This scam happens too much, even the most smartest habbos can fall for this scam.

People who you may/do trust may invite you to their casino or you may find it on the advertisement list.

Scammers will offer extremely great offers on you betting your furniture away, such as "Bet Club Sofa Win 4".

Some scammers hire people to say they are safe, however the person saying that is lieing and is achually in on the scammers evil plan!

Remember, if it sounds too good to be true... it most likely is.
I'd reccomend betting people who you deffinately know well or in Super Rare Casinos which are popular.

Don't bet what you cannot afford to lose!

2 - Quick Trading

There are certain habbos who you usually meet in trade rooms who will say things such as "Buying Throne" then trade you a Throne AND a club sofa or some other nice rare.

Then you will agree and they will close the trade, and as you add your furni they will quickly add something which looks like the rare but its not.

Eg: Habbo A Is trading: "Throne Chair"
Habbo B Is trading: "Plastic Pod Chair, Club Sofa"

These type of people are known as "Quick traders" and are very evil scammers as they do this lots and Habbo Staff cannot ban for this scam as they never can find any proof.

3 - Falling Furni, and other games.

Habbo Hotel stress about this problem alot, under the games floor there are alot of games where you can win amazing rares like Club Sofas, Gold Bars and Throne Chairs.

However, usually this isnt to be trusted so do not "Pay to stay" or "Rev" unless you have the furni to waste... expecially do not trust them if their room is tacky and poor unless you KNOW they are safe for certain.

4 - Furni Cloning.

This is a scam newbies fall for quite often, Habbos will claim they can clone your furniture when really there is no real way to clone furniture and they will just leave the room or kick you from theirs.

Never give your furni away for nothing to a so called "Furni Cloner".

5 - Major Trade Scams

This is a scam that some shop owners fall for or someone who has alot of normals.

The scammer will walk into the Habbo's room and say "Wow, nice normals" or something as such then say "I'll give you a Throne Chair for all of them and some other stuff".

They say things like this knowing your furniture will not fit in a single trade and they will often make an agreement like "The throne wont fit in the tradebox so ill give it you after a quater of the furniture", once they have taken your furniture they will most likely leave the room and disappear for good.

This scam is easy to avoid by just being more cautious.

6 - Hacker Wannabes

People claiming to be Hackers will say something such as "I am a hacker, i will hack you if you do not give me your furniture!111onez."

Do not fall for this, if you keep your details safe and don't download suspicious things there is no way they can hack you.


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Section B - Hackers


1 - Sites, radios and stuff.

Often people will tell you to go to a site, sometimes it will be just to view it for them... othertimes they will claim you have won a competition or an organized event.

Never go onto sites you cannot trust, some will reload your habbo browser onto a fake one so you re-type your details... others will do various things which can take your account away, remember that Sulake will not return/refund lost furniture.


2 - "Free Credits"

Some scammers will claim to be staff or friends of staff and claim they can give you free credits, however they will say they require various details such as your email or your DOB or even your password.

Never give any of these details out, expecially your password... no staff will ever ask for details.

3 - Downloads

Some people will link you to downloads for things like Games, or Habbo hacking tools. (Which are against the habbo way)

However these Downloads will most likely contain Viruses which will steal your details extremely fast.

However, most hackers check their PC for their results at midnight as it is most easiest to take the account at that time so always scan your PC.

I would reccomend Norton Antivirus Software - Google it.


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Thanks for reading my tutorial, feel free to rate it.

I wrote it because i needed something to pass the time while One Piece buffers so i can watch it. :D

Animeeeee! <3

- Chocobos

[mrman10]

nice tut +rep

[Chocobos]

Thanks :)

[Spy,]

nice i was gonna make one ages ago but thought i might be flamed for it plus was to lazy :D lol

+rep on the tut

p.s
add maze scammers thay say pay 1 furni to do my maze and if u complete it u will win blah blah
and some premote websites that hack but thay get ppl there saying complete the maze win ( large prize e.g 5 hc ) and normaly the maze is uncompleteable but seems like u can do it but u really cant

[Chocobos]

Won't let me edit it atm, i will add when i can.

Thanks.

[Spy,]

pm a mod to edit it thay can do it i think if u ask them to

[Energizer]

hi can any1 get me free habbo creds

Edited by opensourcehost (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not post pointlessly.

[Chocobos]

heh, i may email this to Habbo.

:D article ftw?

Btw. your password is like Jafa cakes, you don't share them :O
hah.

[Spy,]

no its

your password is like terrys choc ornages its not terry's its yours

[Chocobos]

Not if that Woman off the TV Comes to your house.

She will eat it... yum, but seriously.

Tommorow this is being emailed to Habbo.

Habbo don't have a very good safety page.

[Elliott$]

nice but not totally true - I read half way down the first spoiler and I came across the "only bet in rich n popular casino's" - Casino's have to get popular some how!

and the bit where you said "mods can't find proof" - That's not the case, but that Habbo is not responsible for casino scams or quick trading.

+rep anyway

[Chocobos]

You are right, but betting in rich and popular casinos is better because rich people are less likely to scam unless they got rich by scamming furni :P

Thanks.

[360]

hi can any1 get me free habbo creds

Edited by opensourcehost (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not post pointlessly.

jus give me 5 furniz im a frend of lost_witness (chris - see i kno his name im his bezzy m8 r/l)







Nice article, one thing though, you recommend Norton Antivirus...i beg to differ. It's one of the worst there is imo, I recommend NOD32

[Chocobos]

heh, i use Panda Antivirus Platinum Edition. :D

Anyway, im going to bed now guys so byeeeee.

:O

[mrman10]

jus give me 5 furniz im a frend of lost_witness (chris - see i kno his name im his bezzy m8 r/l)







Nice article, one thing though, you recommend Norton Antivirus...i beg to differ. It's one of the worst there is imo, I recommend NOD32

Norton 2008 is super.

[Chocobos]

Sorry that i havent been on habbox for a while, im quite ill atm so if im not on for Xmas, Happy Christmas Everybody.

[mrman10]

Sorry that i havent been on habbox for a while, im quite ill atm so if im not on for Xmas, Happy Christmas Everybody.

You too.
But I never bet seeing how I lost 2t from a scam.

[Chippiewill]

should be pinned, some people never understand

[Chocobos]

+Rep returned to all. ^_^

[Cisse9]

Wow, thats cool :eusa_clap +Rep

[Ardemax]

btw it's good but try adding more stuff and updating the old.
Add diagrams/pictures to help the reader.